RI Police Investigating Death Of 20-Year-Old Clinton Man

MADISON, CT —Newport Rhode Island police say they are still investigating the “unusual” death of a 20-year-old Clinton man who was found on the side of a road in the pre-dawn hours June 25. It was reported that emergency personnel were responding to a motor vehicle

Newport Police Department Lt. April Amaral told Patch Wednesday that police are still investigating the death of Joseph “Quint” Cobham Noyes V, 20, of Clinton. Amaral said Wednesday that investigators are waiting on the autopsy report from the Rhode Island medical examiner.

Amaral confirmed reporting that the driver of a car has not been charged by police as the incident and Noyes’ death is “still being investigated.” She declined to offer any more details citing the active nature of the probe.

A spokesman for the medical examiner told Patch late Wednesday the cause and manner of death is "still pending."

According to a report that Amaral confirmed, at around 2:40 a.m., first responders were called to the area of Spring and Dearborn streets in Newport where they found Noyes critically injured. Reports indicate the call was for a motor vehicle versus pedestrian incident.

Meanwhile, as the case is being investigated, Noyes’ family and friends will gather at the Swan Funeral Home in Madison Wednesday and Thursday for calling hours and a celebration of his life is scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. outside the First Congregational Church, 26 Meeting House Lane and will be broadcast via Zoom.

Noyes, according to his Swan Funeral Home obituary, was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Hartford and summers in Madison. He graduated from the Pomfret School in 2019 and completed his freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He was a lacrosse, soccer, squash, and tennis player with a “hunger for speed and adventure, which fueled his love for skiing.” Noyes was described as possessing a “great artistic talent.”

“A fiercely loyal friend with a contagiously bright spirit, Quint was the life of any party and loved by all,” his obituary reads.

And, according to his obituary, he was “12th in line of direct descendants of the Hon. John Alden and direct descendant of Joseph C. Noyes, United States Representative, 25th Congress, from Maine.”

Noyes is survived by his parents Laura Talbot Noyes of Clinton and Joseph “Jay” C. Noyes, IV of Stonington, his sister Sarah Pratt Noyes of Clinton and daily family members of Guilford, Madison, New Hampshire, Colorado and Mexico.

Memorial donations in his memory may be made to the Renbrook School at www.renbrook.org/giving/give-today and the Pomfret School at www.pomfret.org/support-pomfret/give or mail to Pomfret School, PO Box 128, Pomfret, CT 06258.